Temperate Spade-Leaf

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Temperate Spade-Leaf
(Spathaphylla tetracarpos)
Artwork of Temperate Spade-Leaf
Species is extinct.
22/144, Replaced by Descendant
Creator Giant Blue Anteater Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Phoenophyta
Rhagioanthia
Phoenopoopsida
Phoenopoales
Spathaphyllaceae
Spathaphylla
Spathaphylla tetracarpos
Week/Generation 15/102
Habitat Krakow Plains, Krakow Rocky, Huggs Temperate Forest
Size 30 cm Tall
Support Unknown
Diet Photosynthesis
Respiration Unknown
Thermoregulation Unknown
Reproduction Sexual, pollen and fruit


The temperate spade-leaf is an off-shoot of the tundra grass. Some tundra grass began to grow in the Huggs Temperate Forest, a once heavily populated biome, as well as the Krakow Plains and Rocky. It now just grows four spade-shaped leaves. The stalk bears four fruit. Within the fruit are hard seeds. The seeds can be dispersed through the wind, or through the digestive tracts of fauna. Like its ancestor, the temperate spade-leaf has a bulb that stores energy and produces anti-freeze during the winter.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Polar Spade-Leaf (family Spathaphyllaceae)
  • Windbulb (order Phoenopoales)
  • Wafflebark Ferine (class Phoenopoopsida)